Carlyon Bay is a Village in the county of Cornwall.

Carlyon Bay postcode: PL25 3QE

Retail in Carlyon Bay

There are great places to visit near Carlyon Bay including some great hiking areas, country parks, towns, hills, villages, historic buildings and airports.

Places near Carlyon Bay feature a number of interesting hiking areas including Tehidy.

The area around Carlyon Bay features a number of interesting country parks including Tehidy Country Park, Kit Hill Country Park, and Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park.

Callington, Polperro, and St Ives are great places to visit near Carlyon Bay if you like towns.

Carlyon Bay is near some unmissable hills like Kit Hill Country Park,

Don't miss Cremyll, and Botallack's villages if visiting the area around Carlyon Bay.

Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park is one of Carlyon Bay's best, nearby historic buildings to visit in Carlyon Bay.

Cornwall Airport Newquay, and Land's End Airport are great places to visit near Carlyon Bay if you like airports.

Carlyon Bay History

There are some historic monuments around Carlyon Bay:

• Earlier prehistoric hillfort, stone hut circle settlement and field system at Helman Tor
• Sticker Camp later Prehistoric-Roman round
• Platform cairn 180m northwest of Hensbarrow Farm
• Medieval chapel of St Michael's on Roche Rock
• Crewel Cross, at No Man's Land
• Churchyard cross in Roche churchyard, 10m south of the church
• Restormel Castle: motte, bailey and shell keep
• Part of the china clay works known as Wheal Martyn
• Chapel Well, Towan
• Promontory fort at Black Head
• Menacuddle Well
• Wayside cross in Holy Trinity Church churchyard
• Medieval wayside cross base 550m WNW of Lanhadron Farm
• Round called Castle Gotha
• Wayside cross, 6m south of St Mary's Church, Par
• Cross in grounds of Trenython
• Wayside cross at Beacon Cross, 265m east of Lanuah
• Roman fortlet 440m south west of Restormel Farm
• St Cyor's well house
• Small multivallate hillfort 230m south-east of Great Prideaux
• Portal dolmen 400m north east of Lesquite Farm
• Bowl barrow 875m SSE of Bodrugan Barton
• Longstone on Longstone Downs
• Lantern cross and grave slab immediately south of St Bartholomew's Church
• Wayside cross in Tregaminion chapel yard, 3m north west of the chapel
• The Tristan Stone, early Christian memorial stone and wayside cross, 75m north of Polscoe
• Wayside cross in Luxulyan churchyard
• Fenton Pits Cross, 210m WSW of Penburthen Farm
• Round cairn with beacon called Hensbarrow
• Wayside cross 35m south of Heligan House
• Medieval cross base at St Ewe
• Medieval wayside cross 300m NW of Trevorry Farm
• Standing stone called the 'Long Stone' in the grounds of Penrice School
• Wayside cross in Tregaminion chapel yard, 8m south of the chapel
• Part of a mining complex at South Polgooth Mine
• Wayside cross 200m north west of Trethew
• Medieval wayside cross at Lockengate
• Lesquite Cross, 160m NNW of Lesquite Farm
• Small multivallate hillfort called Castle Dore
• Bowl barrow 270m south west of Castle Hill Farm
• The Biscovey Stone, early Christian memorial stone and wayside cross shaft 1m south of St Mary's Church, Par
• A henge re-used as a medieval playing place, 75m north east of Castle Hill Farm
• Holy well NW of Roche Station
• Defensive enclosure at Castle Hill
• Wayside cross shaft in St Andrew's churchyard
• Three bowl barrows between 120m and 820m south of Brynn Barton Cottage
• Standing stone 135m north west of Menear Farm
• Combined viaduct and aqueduct called Treffry Viaduct
• Two wayside crosses in the park surrounding Menabilly